 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 354 pages
...wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heav'n's wide pathless way; And oft as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. The sounds that can be, in any respect, agreeable to him, must correspond with his present humour l... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 336 pages
...Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astr.nv Through the heav'n's wide pathless wsy; And oft as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. The sounds that can be, in any respect, agreeabfe to him, must correspond with his present humour :... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...wandering Moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the Heaven's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud." May we not readily, too, assimilate the course that she thus purely and patiently pursues amidst the... | |
 | Naples, Bay of (Italy) - 1822 - 232 pages
...wandring moon Riding near her highest noon , JLike one that had been led astray Through the ffeavens wide pathless way , And oft as if her head she bowed Stooping through a fleecy cloud ; à admirer l'effet magique de la lune sur la mer, et à nous livrer aux réflexions calmes , que... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging... | |
 | Henry Halford Vaughan - Books and reading - 1836 - 76 pages
...To behold the wand'ring moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Thro' the heavens wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping thro' a fleecy cloud. IL PENSEROSO. h We have above given an instance of the poet's... | |
 | Oxford univ, prize essays - 1836 - 350 pages
...To behold the wand'ring moon Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Thro' the heavens' wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, and as such, apt to awaken. The truth of his description depends upon the first ; its homecoming... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...wand'ring Moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.— MILTON'S II Penteroso. We will consider chiefly the circumstances which relate to the Moon as a celestial... | |
 | Lewis Tomlinson - Astronomy - 1840 - 362 pages
...wand'ring Moon, Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. - MILTON'S II Penseroso. We will consider chiefly the circumstances which relate to the Moon as a celestial... | |
 | England - 1840 - 880 pages
...wandering Moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the Heaven's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud." May we not readily, too, assimilate the course that she thus purely and patiently pursues amidst the... | |
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And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven Green, To behold the wandering Moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the Heaven's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a... 
